Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m ^ ' ?he EaucasYct * ' - "9 YJTDRLOW 8. OABTEB. i ^ family Nwpaper : jebrtte Promotion if tke Political, Sooted, Agricultural ami Commercial InteraeU. J TEBMS: $L60 kmoi in> > } Faiabli iii Aotami. ^iVII-wiEKLY huinow. LANOASTK.K. 8. (J.. MAYT*, 1*99 tSTfcBL^ HirD 1852 mr. ^ . ___ _ _ _ _ _ I . THOUSANDS BOSS ! AND YELLED j! t Grand Ovation Given Gen. I; Hampton by Loving People. ? AUDITORIUM DEDICATED. ' 11 f Hero of '7fi the Central Figure ! ?t Opening Exercises?Speaks i. of Love for Charleston. Charleston, May 0. ? In gale * dress of hunting and fessoons of 1 electric lights Charleston is to- * night welcoming the visitors and f delegates to the ninth annual re- * union of the United Confederate ( Veterans. \ll day the railroads have been emptying hundreds of * the men who wore the gray and their friends, and iho little city ) which heard the first hostile shot of the war between the StateH is 1 nobly undertaking the task of earing for a crowd, which by to- ^ morrow threatens to tax its every , resource. Facilities for 40,000 , persons have been provided, and the prospect is that every cot will be needed. The principal streets are handsomely decorated with bunting, the red, white and blue of the , 4'Lost Cause'' and the Stars and Stripes mingling fraternally; side by side flutter Old Glory and StAndrew's cross, while the white palmetto of South Carolina gleams , everywhere from its blue field. Most of the more distinguished ex Confederate leaders are al- ] ready in the city, among them be- ' ing Gens. Gordon, the comman- < der-in-chief of the association; ; Stephen I). Loe, Wade Hampton, 1 Clemont A. Kvans, Caboll, Geo. I P. Harrison and Gen. Harden, 1 Gen. Wheeler will arrive to-mor row. The reunion proper begins tomorrow, the only official function \ scheduled for today being the re. , ception of the cruiser llaleigh, j which was postponed because of < the vessel's accident in going i aground while coming up to the 1 city this morning. j Tonight the great auditorium j erected especially for this occasion 1 was formally dedicated with impressive ceremonies. Its seating i capacity of 7,000 persons were ! taxed to hold the crowd. On the i stage were seated all of the dis- | tinguished viators and many of the leading citizens of the city. A superb choir and orchestra , furnished the musical portion of ( the exercises and addresses were , made by Mayor Smythe, Gen. ( Wade Hampton, Maj. Theo. G. ( Barker and Hon. T. W. Bacot. The prayer was made by Rot. . Kllison Capers, bishop of South | Carolina and a brigadier general ( in the Confederate army. , Charleston, May 9.?Wade | Hampton was given one of the ( grandest ovations of his life in ^ Charleston tonight. He was the , central figure of the exercises at , the dedication of the auditorium. Hampton was honored to the fullest measure, and when he was introduced and rose more than 7,000 people m the audience rose ; en roasae. The cheering was t deafening and men womon and 1 children wayed their handker- 1 chiefs and hats in the air, the old ' soldiers making the occasion more , thrilling with '.heir genuine rebel ; yells. ( The oration was fully equal to j hat memorable one at Richmond p i few years ago, and the old hero : (j ippreciated it. lie had hilt a !ew words to say when he ad-1 lrossed the audience. Mayor j >mythe in introducing him made i ^ ise of the words of Shakespeare: 'I do not think a praver gentlenan'! * * is now alive, lie re'erred to (Jen. Hampton as the pj loblo citizen of Charleston who lonored his people tonight ?the nan first in the hearts of Charleson people. Gen Hampton said he h:id not I :ome here to n "ke a speech. Ho eferrod to the welcome always j ?iven him here, ami said that this| >ne recalled to his mind the i .cones of '76 and the men ho had j commanded. It was Charleston ^ hat had given him the moans to Hri iccomplwh what was done in 1*70. pe Ele referred to his childhood I nemories of St. Michael's chimes. *'1 l'here were no people he loved 181 ind valued more than the people ?f Charleston. tf< Among tho arrivals today was 8F Miss Nannie Randolph lleth of I ?? Washington, who succeeds Missjur Winnie Davis as sponsor of the er issociation, her maids, Miss Caf- 1 Eery of Louisiana, Miss I'eters of 11 Washington, Miss Wilcox and m M iss Alston ?>f South (Carolina. ra rilK EXTENSION BONDER i1,1 k' Mortgages on the Ohio River and . Charleston Railroad Filed. m ' th The State, 11th inst. . 111 D A docnment of considerable im flr portanee to tho Ohio River and Charleston railroad was filed in J e> the oftice of tho secretary of Stato | yesterday. It was a release of ()| the mortgage held on that road. ^ (under the former name, Charles- y< ton, Cincinnati and Chicago), held by the Boston Safe Deposit and: Trust Company. | ^ Another mortgage was put on nt record as soon as the above was ] ^ cancelled. The latter instrument th >8 directed to the continental trust th company of New York, trustees for the bond holders and is issued for tho purpose of securing the!u, (1,800,000 worth of bonds to be ' jn floated by the road under the ti- I m t'e 4'South Carolina and Georgia'vi Extension Railway Co." The in road states that its indebtedness is th |546,000 in South Carolina and ! m in identical sum in North Caro- tli lina. a( The papers were <lrawn up on G May 1st, but were not presented m to the socretury of state until yes*, th terday. They arosigned by Sam- th uel Hunt, president, and John st Collier, treasurer of the South ch Carolina and Georgia Extension. en One of the most remarkable G features of the last mortgage is'in the amount of revenue stamp mon- at By necessary to make the docu- th ment valid. There were attached w to the paper eighteen stamps each to of the denomination of $50, ag- vt negating a total of $000. Kail- of road mortgages come high, but pi we must have them. ut RKD HOT FltOM TIIK t0 ?IJN P< Was the hall that hit G. 11. Stead man of Newark, Mich., in si the Civil War. It caused horrible C1 Ulcere that no treatment helped ^ for 20 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Horns, Boils, Felons, " Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best ^ Pile care on earth. 25 cts. a box. pi Cure guaranteed. Sold by Craw* d< ford Bros' Druggist. ! HARLESTON'S GREATEST DAY , ddiers of the South Gathered to Her Loving Arms. !RST DAY OF REUNION. en. John R. Gordon's Eloquent Vddress at Reunion. (ien. Hampton, ('otnmanding Army of Northern Virginia, Lends Parade of Grizzled Veterans. Charleston, May 10.?Almost e first official act of the ninth inual reunion of the United Conderate veterans, which be^an ? sessions today, was an attempt I Mien. Stephen D. Lee of Misssippi to secure an indorsement President McKinley's surges- | m made in his recent Atlanta] teech that the care of the craves | Confederate dead should be ] idertaken by the Federal gov- j timent. Action on the resold-1 i in, however, was frustrated by motion to refer it to the comittee on resolutions in spite of a ther general sentiment to put it rough with enthusiasm. Aa lis committee is yet to he splinted, it is not probable that e matter will be taken up toorrow, and the ultimate fate of 10 resolution is problematic. The otion to refer originated with r. J. William J ones of Virginia, id met with somo opposition, id it is believed the matter will rentually cause somo discussion, ] ?there is a decided faction in favor ? Gen. Lee's sentiments, while' le opposition is also said to bo' irv strong. The reference ot mimittee probaby will result in nonding the resolution 60 that hile thanking the president and iknowledging his action as a raceful one, it will declare that io care of its dead is a duty of 10 south. TilF. Ill's!NESS SESSION. The business sessions of the re lion was call to order this morng by (Jen. C. I. Walker, comanding the South Carolina di sion, in the handsome auditortn erected for the occasion by ie city of Charleston. Its cn<?r ous floor space was crowded and ' lousands were unable to grain Imittance to the building. When en. John B. Gordon, the coniander-in chief, appeared upon ie stage he was greeted with Hinders of applause. The band ruck up Dixie, and the veterans | leered and cheered again. In | J ling the assemblage to order en. Walker spoke of Charleston's vitation to the veterans to meet the birthplace of secession, and ie gavel he was using was that ith which in 18t>0 had been used i call to order the secession con j ntion. The chairs used by the licers today and the table of the 'esiding officer were the same as ted on that memorable occasion. When Gen. Gordon was escorted i the front of the stage his aplarance was the signal for a orm of applause. Cheers and irill yells for the commander-in lief mingled with the crash of ie band, and hats, haadkerchiefs 1 id flags were waved frantically, fhen order was finally secured ie old Confederate chieftain was resented by Gen. Walker, and slivered an eloquent address. He x>ke with all the rigor, eloquence hd(1 grace which have won foi him a national reputation as ar orator. (len. Gordon said: "Governor, Gentlemen of the Committee. My Fellow Country men of South Carolina: The floo< of emotions which stirs the sensi hilitieR of these veterans today i: their loving answer to your gracious greeting. These emotioni will speak to you in language fai more impressive and eloquenl than any words that 1 could utter The raging shouts from thes< thousands of Confederate throats are veritable echoes of the in spiring resolutions of welcomi unanimously adopted by our general assembly. While thoso reso lution have cheered and thriller every*, southern soldier's heait, they wore not needed to tell us o: the reception that awaited us it South Carolina. Her whole his tory and that of her commercia capital were the promise ant guarantee of this magniticenl reality. For more than twe hundred years, made memorable by heroic struggles iu war ant brilliant achievements in peace the names of South Carolina ant of Charleston have been tlx synonyms of hospitality, of chival ry, and of valor. "What else could bo ex pec tec of a people in whose veins art coaiingled the blood of the proui English Cavaliers ? the blood o those devoted and resolute men who protested against the iminor alitic>> and grinding exactions o the Stuarts; the blood of the stal wart Dissenters and of the heroi Highlanders of Scotland and of tin sturdy democratic Presbyterian of Ireland; the blood of those de fenders of freedom who came t< your shores from the mountau battlements of Switzerland, am lastly, but no less pure and sacred the blood of the high*soule< Huguenots of France, whosi martyrs, by a glorious fidelity even unto death, have :nadt sweeter and ricaer the record o human devotion to conscience am liberty. "No resolutions, I repeat, tv which this groat Commonwealtl extends its "loving welcome' were needed to assure these rem mints of tho mouth's immorta armies that the 'freedom of th< State' was theirs, ami that even heart within her borders was i soldior's shrine. We had but t< remember that South Carolim was the nursery of heroes, a; well as of statesmen and ol patriots?that no one State, ex cept that she bo endowed with ai almost boundless atllueneo o greatness, could in one century have given to the cause of libert; and tho lepublic such a splondii galaxy as South Carolina present in her Rutledge, her Sumter, he Moultrie, her Middleton, and he Marion; in her Butler, her Pinck j n?y, and her Pickens; in her Mc Duffie and her Calhoun; in he Hamilton, her Hayne, and her be loved Hampton. "If we turn from th?s incom plete array of her coble sons t the contemplation of tho scar upon her bosom, received in he battles for American freedom a Cowpens, at Camden, and Char leston; at Eutaw Springs, For Moultrie and King's Mountain while her "Swamp Fox," wit his ragged brigade, roasted thei rations of sweet potatoes in he forest* at night, and by thei sudden aalliea, now from th * | mountains and now from the > marshes, amazed and bewildered the British invaders; if wc add "to this survey of her past the record (I of her princely liberality in the j I donation of her soil to the general j | government, wo shall gain a still i bettor conception of the lofty , characteristics and unchallenged M patriotism of her people. J "To me, personally, whose as j r | sociatious with South (Carolinians j t through the Civil war and the | I still more galling period of re-' J construction and rehabilitation, , J gave a clearer insight into I .j their motives and future aims, it 3lis a proud privilege vouchsafed . j to mo today to stand in your .! presence as the representatives of 1 these battle-bruised veterans and tell this people how fully we f recognize their worth an<l how I ! gratefully we acknowledge our . indebtedness to them. I j "1 should esteem it a still \ higher honor to stand here today v as the herald of both the host and guest* in proclaiming a message j of good will to all our country* j men and to send the fraternal j greeting of this people, of all \ Confederates, and of their chil- ; ? dren to all patriots of all sections: ? to unite with our American orethreu of every State in ascribI ing to the guiding hand of God 0 the unparalleled victories of j American arms in the late war on f lund and sea: and lastly, by the memory of the fathers, whose spirits live in their sons, to pledge f the south's unfailing support to every worthy cause for strengthening the bonds of American unity and thus accelerating tie onward march of the republic in its benign mission to humanity." After the applause had subsided Gen. Gordon led Mrs. i Stonewall Jackson to the front of the stage, and she was enthusiasj tically applauded. As he presented Mrs. Jackson and in the tirst lull, Gen. Gordon _ said: 44I will shake her hands " i f for you all, and in an instant he j added, 44no, I will do more ihan that; I am going to hug her for you," and with that did what he i said he was going to do, which , met the hearty approval of the vast throng. j It was at this stage Gen. Lee presented his resolution. It was decided without further discussion that the resolution bo referred to the committee on resolutions. ) Gen. Gordon presented Miss Kate Cabell Currie, of Dallas, ) ^ rlex., Miss Laura Lawendon, of New Orleans, Mrs. Kirby Smith and other ladies whose husbands or fathers were Confederate leaders. In response to the re peated demands of the audience ^ he also presented Mrs. Gordon, who was greeted with an outburst of applause. The sesaion then ^ adjourned. VETERANS ON PARADF. The parade of the veterans ocr curred this afternoon, and they i- marched through a dense crowd of cheering people, Led by Gens, i- Gordon and Wade Hampton, a o lone; line of the grizzled men who 8 had followed these leaden* and the r other captains of the Confederate X armies through four years oi hardship and battle, marched t sturdily under the blazing south i, ern sun to the inspiring strains ol h "Dixie," of the "Bonnie Blue r Flag" and the irrelevant but ir r repressive "There will be a hoi r time in the old town tonight." e At intervals along the line th< fluttering of a war-worn and shot torn buttle Hag called forth cheers, while many heads were bared as the frayed emblems of a dead cause gleamed over some organization whose name is a household word to the aouth. Here and there a camp appeared in the gray jeans uniform, black slouch hats and carrying muskets of the old pattern, and all the war paraphernalia of the "sixtyone." Here again Hampton and Gordon were cheered vociferously at |every step and rode almost the entire route with bared heads. The absence of Gen. Wheeler in the line was a source of considerable disappointment. He reached | the city early today, but did not participate in the parade. OEN. IIAMETON LEI) THE MEN. Including the kindred organizations and distinguished guests and committees there were probably 5,000 persons in the line, probably 3,000 of them veterans. The parade was led by (Jen. C. I. Walker and stair, followed bv the escort composed of the local i military companies, cadets and j the naval reserves. Then came (Jen. Gordon and his staff followed by a long line of carriages containing the sponsors and maids of honor of the various camps. The veterans were led by (Jen. Wade Hampton, at the head of the Army of Northern Virginia, and preceded by '21 battle llags with their escorts. The array of Tennessee followed, led by Gen. Stephen D. Lee and was followed by the camps representing the transMississippi army in command of Gen Cabell. The sons of Confederate Veterans brought up the rear. The State divisions were in command of the following officers: South Carolina, (JenC. 1. Walker; Virginia, (Jen. Brander; Maryland, Gen. Tripp; West Virginia, Gen. White; Mississippi, (Jen. Campbell; Florida, (Jen. Law; A'abama, Gen. Ferguson; Georgia, Gen. Evans; Louisiana, (Jen. Tunnard; Texas, (Jen. Pol ley; Arkansas, CJen. Ilornor; Indian Territory, Gen. Coleman; Missouri, Gen. McCollough; Oklahoma, (Jen. Caster; North Carolina, Gen. DeRossett; Tennessee, Gen. George W. (Juder. The parade was dismissed at the auditorium, where the memorial day exercises were held. This being South Carolina memorial ,io.- - * a-.-I ? I wv,taonMi nun onu OI tltlWDIO j significance. The ceremonies were I very impressive and the auditorium was again tilled to its capacity. The memorial address was delivered by Adjt. Geo. Moorman, who spoke eloquently of the hero I dead of the south and paid high , tribute to its women. I Chaplain Jones, in his opening | prayer, made an indirect allusion to the Leo resolutioas by express-* ing the hope that the women of the south would keep up the noble work of caring for the graves of the southern dead and that no one ( should take from them that sacred , privilege. I THF. NIGHT SESSION. > Tonight at the auditorium an J interesting ceremony took place I in the presentation to Gen. Moor man, adjutant perioral of the asf suciation, of a flap from each of ? the southern States. An immense . crowd was present and the oct casion was mode rather a social ' one. Qen. Moorman was the i [concluded on second page.)